KIEV, Dec. 3 – President Viktor Yushchenko said he hopes that the Tsyklon-4 (Cyclone 4) rocket launch vehicle project will be implemented.

"We are sure that with the realization of this project, Ukraine and Brazil will become stronger, as two countries that have space technologies of the twenty-first century," the president said during a Ukrainian-Brazilian business forum in Kiev on Wednesday.

Yushchenko also pointed to the uniqueness and effectiveness of this project and, referring to the assessments of experts, said "orders over the next five to six years will total up to $10 billion."